CONCORD, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 19, 2006—
SolidWorks Corporation, the leading supplier of 3D CAD
technology, today announced that elevator systems leader Wittur Turkey
has standardized on SolidWorks(R) software, enabling the company to
shorten its design-to-manufacturing process by more than 40 percent.
Wittur Turkey identified time and cost savings in several development
phases, including planning, design, bills of material management,
order confirmation, and production.

Switching to SolidWorks 3D CAD software has given Wittur Turkey
the ability to work more intuitively and creatively, resulting in
better products moving more quickly to market. The company relies
heavily on SolidWorks software's unique ability to automate the 3D
design of metal sheets and plates that need to be precisely bent, cut,
drilled, lasered, punched, and welded.

Wittur Turkey evaluated all of the major 3D CAD offerings and
chose SolidWorks for its ease of use, intuitive interface, and breadth
of integrated capabilities. "Our success depends largely on our
capacity to quickly and flexibly adapt to the demands of our
customers," said Ercument Hizal, general manager of Wittur Turkey.
"And while we're focused on 3D, we need full access to our 2D data and
the ability to move back and forth between drawing and solid modeling.
SolidWorks was superior even to AutoCAD Inventor(R) in this regard and
was the optimal answer to our designers' needs."

Wittur Turkey is a member of the Wittur Group, the global leader
in elevator components manufacturing. Wittur Turkey produces elevators
for passenger, freight, hospital, and panoramic applications as well
as shaft systems and a wide range of standard and customized
components.

In addition to SolidWorks 3D CAD software, Wittur Turkey has
purchased COSMOSWorks(R) analysis software, PDMWorks(R) product data
management software, and PhotoWorks(TM) rendering software - tools
that help Wittur Turkey further reduce production time and cost.
COSMOSWorks software helps Wittur Turkey's design engineers ensure the
safety of the elevators, enabling iterative testing directly from the
SolidWorks interface. COSMOSWorks also minimizes overdesign,
significantly reducing costs throughout all design and production
phases. Wittur Turkey is using the eDrawings(R) e-mail-based
collaboration tool to shorten approval and confirmation processes with
customers.

"Wittur Turkey is a much-admired leader in elevator technology,
manufacturing, and customer satisfaction," said Rainer Gawlick,
SolidWorks Corporation's vice president of worldwide marketing. "The
measures it has taken to improve design processes have had a direct,
significant, and quantifiable impact on its business. SolidWorks
Corporation will continue to meet the needs of companies like Wittur
Turkey, supporting their single-minded endeavor to provide their many
important customers with better products."

Wittur Turkey is a member of the Wittur Group, the leading
multinational company in lift components manufacturing. Wittur Turkey
produces automatic car and landing doors, cars for passenger, freight,
hospital, and panoramic lifts, car and counterweight slings, and
various lift components. Wittur Turkey produces not only standard
components but also customized designs. For more information, visit
www.wittur.com.

About Umtas A.S.

Umtas A.S. is an importer and reseller of some leading European
and U.S. companies in the CAD/CAM/CAE software and technical equipment
field. Umtas A.S. is the only Value-Added Reseller of SolidWorks
products in Turkey. Umtas A.S. is also providing training and full
technical support to Turkish customers in addition to license sales.
For more information, visit
www.umtas.com.tr.

SolidWorks, eDrawings, and PDMWorks are registered trademarks and
PhotoWorks is a trademark of SolidWorks Corporation. COSMOSWorks is a
registered trademark of Structural Research & Analysis Corporation.
Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective
owners. Copyright (c) 2006 SolidWorks Corporation.